Tools/Skills 1
Taking deep breaths with a hand on our belly
What is belly breaths?
This is the zone when our feelings are down in ourselves, such as sick or tired.
What is the blue zone?
A small tool to help us focus and get our fidgets out
What are fidgets?
This is the type of behavior we show when we are in the green zone.
What is expected behavior?
These friends helped us learn a lot of skills for us to feel our best,
What are the Feel Your Best Self Friends?
When noise is too much and we're feeling overwhelmed we can use this tool to help us
What are noise canceling headphones?
This is the zone when we are just okay. Also calm or happy are part of this zone.
What is green zone?
Sometimes we need space in a different area to help us reset
What is taking a break?
This is the type of behavior we might showcase when we are in the blue, yellow, or red zones.
What is unexpected behavior?
This skill uses counting down or up numbers
What is counting to ten?
We can use this skill to make our problems seem smaller and more manageable.
What is the size of the problem?
This is the zone when we are starting to escalate. Our feelings, such as excited or frustrated, start to come out of us.
What is yellow zone?
Sometimes you just need to tell someone else in charge to help us through our problems
What is talking to an adult?
How others might respond or react when we do what is expected of us.
Safe, happy, friendly, kind, green zone, or nice.
This skill has us squeezing our whole bodies a piece at a time and then releasing all at once to help us feel grounded.
What is ground it down?
Taking a negative thought and making it a positive.
What is flipping the thought?
This is the zone when we are out of control. Our emotions start to heavily impact the people around us, such as when we are angry or yelling.
What is red zone?
Push the clouds away,
until the sky is clear,
send away the heavy thoughts,
and bring the sunshine near!
What is push the clouds?
How others might respond/react to us if we are doing something unexpected.
Unsafe, upset, mad, freak out, copy us, or anything other than green zone.
This skill debates between when our brain is helping us and when our brain is being too mean to ourselves.
What is coach vs. critic?
These skills help level our mind through breathing different ways or even counting.
What are calming techniques?
This is what the zones unit is called.
What is the zones of regulation?
These skills use our brain to work through our problems, such as gauging the size of it or seeing if our brain is trying to help us or not.
What are thinking strategies?
What is "You can change how I feel"
A phrase to help show how we can impact others by doing either expected or unexpected behaviors
These tools support us through smells, touch, or taste.
What are sensory supports?